Woman charged over crash that killed 4yo girl

A woman has been charged with failing to properly restrain a four-year-old girl who died after an overcrowded vehicle crashed and rolled in north Queensland earlier this month.

The 25-year-old woman was charged after the girl died in the Townsville Hospital on Friday, almost a week after the crash on Broadwater Creek Road in the Abergowrie State Forest about 40 kilometres north-west of Ingham on November 10.

She is facing two counts of carrying an unrestrained child, and one count each of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, exceeding registered carrying capacity and unlicensed driving.

Police would not confirm the woman’s relationship to the child other than to say they knew each other.